Star Foundry by malero
An epic space battle between rival AI sentient beings where YOU have to program your units to win the game.
Note: Vita Refinery does not work. I might fix it and post an alternate link for a Post LD Jam bug fixes version.

| HTML5 (web) | http://www.playstarfoundry.com/ld44/ |
| HTML5 (web) | http://www.playstarfoundry.com/ |
| Original URL | https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/44/star-foundry |
Ratings
| Given | 15🗳️ | 7🗨️ |
- very unique game
- good simple pseudo code language
- once you get the hang of it, it's really fun
Con:
- getting resources takes a while
Very interesting game! I played for way longer than I initially planned to :smile:
It would be cool if the drones had a "status" that described what they were currently trying to do, because sometimes I told them to do something (like attack) and they seemed unresponsive.
Also would have loved autocomplete on the command input, but I can understand why that might have been too much work! That said, the "docs" section on the right was great, loved that you could run the examples. Would be cool if after clicking the function name (like laser > attack), it also gave a listing of applicable objects to use as arguments so I didn't have to click away to check the name of the object.
The art for the mother and asteroids was also cool.
After a while, the sound stopped playing, not sure what happened there.
I really liked the art und the mood everything emitted, very nicely done. Woul've loved a more intuitive way to play it. For exmaple like "human resource machine" worked around that exact problem.
I think it would be a bit more clear if all the places you could enter code had some sort of autocomplete so you don't have to keep switching between editing code and reading the documentation. Since it takes so long to figure out how something works, maybe the ability to pause the game would be nice too. I was getting attacked while reading the docs trying to figure out how to defend myself.
All in all a great idea, and I'd pay to play a full game like this.